PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — FORMER national dragonboat rower Noelle Wenceslao became the first Filipina to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain when she and two other teammates completed their final…
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Customs, BIR revamp looms
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has overturned a plan of the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the Bureau of Customs to defer the implementation of the lateral attrition law,…
Stock market, peso surge
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Shares surged to their highest level in 10 years yesterday, inspired by relatively smooth mid-term elections, while the peso rallied to a new six-year high of 46.95 to…
PLDT profit flat at P8.58b in Q1
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE –Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co., the country’s largest communications company, declared yesterday a net income of P8.575 billion in the first quarter of 2007, down slightly from P8.581 million…
SolGen upholds Puno on suspension
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE government’s top lawyer yesterday supported the Department of the Interior and Local Government’s decision to defer the suspension of Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay over corruption charges. In…
GSIS to invest in property
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — After cashing in on its equity investments over the past few weeks, state-run pension fund manager Government Service Insurance System said yesterday it is venturing aggressively into the…
Peso surges to 47.365:$1; reserves hit $25b in April
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — The peso yesterday surged to a new six-and-a-half-year high against the US dollar supported by a string of positive news on the domestic front and prospects of a…
DILG chief to face probe over Binay case
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — JUSTICE Secretary Raul M. Gonzalez said Interior and Local Government Secretary Ronaldo Puno could face sanctions for failing to enforce the order of the Ombudsman to suspend Mayor…
Ping linked to ‘bugs’
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE wiretapping equipment seized by police near the home of former President Corazon Aquino last week was very similar to the bugging devices used by agents of the…
Mike withdraws libel suits vs journalists
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — FIRST Gentleman Atty. Jose Miguel Arroyo yesterday smoked a peace pipe and offered an olive leaf to his fiercest and harshest critics as he withdrew all 42 libel…
BIR runs after accounts of Makati City
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE Bureau of Internal Revenue yesterday froze the financial assets of the Makati city government to recover P1.1 billion in taxes withheld from at least 8,000 city hall…
Erap supporters mark ‘EDSA 3’
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — LOYAL supporters of former President Estrada yesterday marked their failed siege of Malacañang Palace six years ago, which they have dubbed “Edsa 3,” by trooping to the historic…
Lacson linked Aquino spying case
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE District Attorney of New Jersey in the US has implicated Sen. Panfilo Lacson as a co-conspirator in the espionage case involving his former ally, Senior Supt. Michael…
Burgos not with us — AFP
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — AS POLICE formed a task force to look for Jonas Burgos, his widowed mother, Edith, went on radio yesterday and appealed to President Macapagal-Arroyo’s sense of motherhood to…
Campbell killer to be given tests
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — GOVERNMENT doctors will take DNA samples from the confessed killer of United States Peace Corps volunteer Julia Campbell to match them with the evidence found where she was…